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Ellicott City derailment raises questions of track safety
As cleanup crews and investigators focus on the aftermath of a coal train derailment that killed two college students in Ellicott City, some officials are looking at new ways to keep people off the tracks that run through the historic district. Hours...
Tags: Ellicott City, Ken Ulman, Patapsco, Motorvehicle Accidents, National Transportation Safety Board
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Time to shutter coal-fired power plants
I applaud the Maryland Sierra Club for taking a stand against the C.P. Crane and H.A. Wagner coal-fired power plants. It is high time for Maryland to make the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Retiring the Crane and Wagner plants is a...Tags: Asthma, Environmental Pollution, Metal and Mineral, Mining, Heart Attack
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Coal terminal operator pays pollution fine
A Baltimore coal terminal operator has agreed to pay a $34,600 penalty and settle pollution violations alleged by the Environmental Protection Agency. Federal regulators contend that CNX Marine Terminals at 3800 Newgate Ave. near the northern entrance to...Tags: Patapsco, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Derailment victims recalled as 'great students, great people'
In the year that he has lived on Main Street in historic Ellicott City, Jim VanHeel has seen flooding, a deadly shooting at a nearby church and, early Tuesday morning, a fatal train derailment. "It seems like something is always happening," he said. The...
Tags: Students, Ellicott City, Ken Ulman, Patapsco, Baltimore County
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Danger on the rails
This week, we mourn for the loss of Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr, the 19-year-old college students who died on a downtown Ellicott City train trestle, victims of a coal train derailment late Monday night. Theirs were promising lives cut short in a truly...
Tags: Ellicott City, Port of Baltimore, Railway Accidents, Railway Transportation, Union Pacific Corporation
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Exelon agrees to sell 3 Md. coal plants for $400 million
Exelon Corp. plans to sell its three Maryland coal-fired power plants for $400 million to a subsidiary of private equity firm Riverstone Holdings LLC, the Chicago-based energy giant said Thursday.
Under the terms of the deal, buyer Raven Power Holdings...Tags: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Metal and Mineral, Baltimore County, Petroleum Industry, Justice System
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Sierra Club kayakers urge closure of recently sold coal plants
Environmentalists paddled kayaks along Dundee Creek on Saturday to call attention to the recently announced sale of three local coal-fired power plants they say should be shut down for polluting the air.
Jan Hoffmaster of Millersville, the outings...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Environmental Pollution, Baltimore County, Air Pollution, Constellation Energy Group
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Climate and conservatives
When political conservatives start talking about raising taxes, it's wise to pay attention. Such is the case with a recently-announced campaign by a former South Carolina congressman who believes solving the nation's energy and climate change challenges...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Tea Party Movement, Consumers, Environmental Pollution, Greenland
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Coal still a major cause of Maryland's toxic air pollution
Maryland may have some of the nation's strictest limits on power plant pollution, but its residents are still breathing more toxic emissions from those facilities than in most other states. The state's reliance on burning coal for electricity appears to...
Tags: Natural Resources Defense Council, Metal and Mineral, Environmental Pollution, Plant Openings, Environmental Politics
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EPA's climatic victory
Tuesday's victory by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal appeals court in the District of Columbia has once again demonstrated that the science of climate change, while famously "inconvenient," is virtually impossible for fair and...Tags: U.S. Geological Survey, Trials, Global Warming, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Change
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Baltimore-area exports boom, led by chemicals, computers
The Baltimore region showed nearly double-digit growth in export goods and services in 2010, with room to grow, according to a study released Thursday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based public policy organization.
The report, titled "Export...Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Business, Companies and Corporations, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Port of Baltimore
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Constellation's three coal plants to find new owner by year's end
While Constellation Energy Group has a new owner in Exelon Corp., 450 workers at three coal-fired plants once owned by the Baltimore company are in limbo.
As a condition of its purchase of Constellation last month, the Chicago energy giant has...Tags: Beaches, Anne Arundel County, Environmental Pollution, Baltimore County, Finance
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